Student Consumer Information

Safeguarding Customer Information

Your Rights and Responsibilities as a Financial Aid Recipient

The Federal Government and the KWU Student Financial Planning Office want you to know:

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT

to know what financial assistance programs are available at your school

to know the deadlines for submitting applications for each of the financial assistance programs available.

to know how your financial need was determined. This includes how costs for tuition and fees, room and board, travel, books and supplies, personal and miscellaneous expenses, are considered in your budget.

to know what resources, such as parental contribution, other financial assistance, your assets, etc., were considered in the calculation of your need.

to know how much of your financial need, as determined by the institution, has been met.

to request an explanation of the various programs in your student assistance package.

to know your school’s refund policy.

to know what portion of the financial assistance you receive must be repaid and what portion is grant assistance. If the assistance is a loan, you have the right to know what the interest rate is, the total amount that must be repaid, the repayment procedures, the length of time you have to repay the loan,

to know how the school determines whether you are making satisfactory progress and what happens if you are not.

to obtain other consumer information concerning student retention and completion rate which is available upon request.

to information concerning academic programs, facilities and faculty, which is located in the Kansas Wesleyan University catalog.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

You must complete all application forms accurately and submit them on time to the right place.

You must provide correct information. In most instances, misreporting information on financial assistance application forms is a violation of law and may be considered a criminal offense, possibly resulting in indictment under the U.S. criminal code.

You must return all additional documentation, verification, corrections, and /or new information requested by either the Enrollment and Financial Services office or the agency to which you submitted your application.

You are responsible for reading and understanding all forms that you are asked to sign and for keeping copies of them.

You must accept responsibility for all agreements that you sign.

You must perform the work that is agreed upon in accepting a Federal Work Study Award.

You must be aware of and comply with the deadlines for application or reapplication for assistance.

You should be aware of your school’s refund procedures.

All schools must provide the information to a prospective student about the school’s past student retention and the completion rates of various programs. You should consider this information carefully before deciding to attend a school.

Net Price Calculator

WHAT DOES NET PRICE MEAN?

Net Price is the amount that a student pays to attend an institution in a single academic year AFTER subtracting scholarships and grants the student receives. Scholarships and grants are forms of financial aid that a student does not have to pay back.

WHAT IS A NET PRICE CALCULATOR

Net price calculators are available on a college’s or university’s website and allow prospective students to enter information about themselves to find out what students like them paid to attend the institution in the previous year, after taking grants and scholarship aid into account. Click here to view KWU's Net Price Calculator!

Equity in Athletics

WHAT DOES EQUITY IN ATHLETICS MEAN?

All coeducational institutions of higher education that participate in federal student aid programs and have intercollegiate athletic programs are under the Equity in Athletic Disclosure Act of 1994, Section 360B of Public Law 103-382. Information required in this act is available for inspection by students, prospective students or the public in the KWU Athletics Department Office or online on The Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool webpage (search for Kansas Wesleyan University).

Campus Crime

WHAT DOES CAMPUS CRIME MEAN?

The Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool is brought to you by the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. This analysis cutting tool was designed to provide rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to campus crime and fire data. The data are drawn from the OPE Campus Safety and Security Statistics website database to which crime statistics and fire statistics (as of the 2010 data collection) are submitted annually, via a web-based data collection, by all postsecondary institutions that receive Title IV funding (i.e., those that participate in federal student aid programs). This data collection is required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool and click on “Get data for one institution/campus," then search for Kansas Wesleyan University.

College Navigator Site

WHAT IS THE COLLEGE NAVIGATOR SITE?

The College Navigator is a federal website that contains data about most colleges and universities in the USA, in an easily searchable format. It is hosted by the Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics. Go to the College Navigator and search for Kansas Wesleyan University.